Wednesday, March 7, 2018

Palamas on the "eminently personal" "causality [(i.e. monarchy)] of the Father in God"

"When God was conversing with Moses, He did not say, 'I am the essence', but 'I am the One Who is.' Thus it is not the One Who is who derives from the essence, but essence which derives from Him, for it is He [(the Father)] who contains all being in Himself."καὶ τῷ Μωυσῇ δὲ χρηματίζων ὁ θεὸς
οὐκ εἶπεν « ἐγώ εἰμι ἡ οὐσία », ἀλλ' « ἐγώ εἰμι ὁ ὤν »· οὐ γὰρ ἐκ τῆς οὐσίας
ὁ ὤν, ἀλλ' ἐκ τοῦ ὄντος ἡ οὐσία· αὐτὸς γὰρ ὁ ὢν ὅλον ἐν ἑαυτῷ συνείληφε τὸ
εἶναι.